Seeking new ownership

I have turned off domain renewal for https://omnibear.com. If anybody is interested in taking over this project, reach out to me at barkeep @ keithjgrant.com

The browser extension needs to be upgraded (possibly partially rewritten) using the newer web extensions API. In the retooling branch I've updated the tooling and refactored out the MobX dependency to get things modernized a bit, but the main conversion to Web Manifest 3 still needs to be done before this can work in today's browsers.

Omnibear

For general usage information, see https://omnibear.com.

Development

After cloning the repository, run npm install to install dependencies.

• npm run build: build into the /dist directory.
• npm start: build and automatically watch for changes and rebuild.
• npm test: run tests. npm test -- --watch will watch for changes and re-run tests every time. If you have issues, make sure you are using node 8.x (the LTS version).

Installing from the repository

To install in Chrome from the repository:

1. Navigate to chrome://extensions/
2. Check the “Developer mode” box
3. Click “Load unpacked extension” and select the /dist directory of the repository

To install in Firefox from the repository:

1. Navigate to about:debugging
2. Click “Load Temporary Add-On”
3. Navigate to the /dist directory and select the manifest.json file

Theoretically, this should work in MS Edge, too, but I don’t run Windows so I haven’t tested that out.

Overview

Omnibear is run by three scripts:

• src/background.js — Runs in a background page. This keeps track of which tab currently has the user's focus and handles communication between the page script and omnibear popup script.
• src/page.js — A content script that runs in all pages (tabs). This highlights selected entries when the user right-clicks them. It alerts the background script whenever its tab receives user focus. And it watches for when the browser navigates to the authentication successful page on omnibear.com.
• src/index.js — The main script of the popup page. This is a small webapp built using Preact and MobX that includes the posting form and settings screen.

Authentication details, user settings, and the note draft are stored in Omnibear’s localStorage.